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Data Processing: Software Development, Installation, And Management > Software Program Development Tool (e.g., Integrated Case Tool Or Stand-alone Development Tool) > Modeling > Visual VisualVisual patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.11/15/07 - 20070266368 - System and method for synchronized workflow management A workflow manager that offers structure and control over the graphical modeling environment so that the graphical modeling environment is reconfigured in a manner appropriate for a particular workflow is disclosed. The workflow manager of the present invention provides hierarchical task management that is synchronized to the graphical modeling environment. ... 11/08/07 - 20070261021 - Optimized look-up table calculations in block diagram software Pre-lookup index search blocks and multidimensional interpolation blocks that use the results of the pre-lookup index search blocks in a block diagram to graphically specify (and perform) multidimensional interpolation calculations. The pre-lookup index search and interpolation blocks are defined so as to provide for a separation of breakpoint set data ... 11/08/07 - 20070261020 - System and method for providing indicators of textual items having intrinsic executable computational meaning within a graphical language environment An electronic device with a graphical language environment that includes a method which examines a graphical model to identify textual items having intrinsic executable computational meaning within the graphical model is discussed. The method identifies at least one textual item with intrinsic executable computational meaning. The method further provides an ... 11/08/07 - 20070261019 - Calling an entity of a graphical model with a non-graphical entity and calling a non-graphical entity of a graphical model with a graphical entity The present invention provides a graphical model in a computing environment that enables a non-graphical entity to be a caller entity that executes a sequence of commands to call to a graphical or non-graphical entity that is a callee. The present invention also enables a graphical entity to be a ... 10/18/07 - 20070245300 - Apparatus, system, and method for presenting project scheduling information in combination with workflow information An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for present project scheduling information in combination with workflow information. The apparatus includes a worksheet pane configured to present a worksheet with task entries for the project, a workflow pane configured to overlay representations of timing, workflow, and dependencies in the project, and ... 07/19/07 - 20070168932 - Support of a platform-independent model including descriptions of modeling language entities Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for supporting a model including descriptions of modeling language entities in a visual modeling environment. A method includes providing a visual modeling tool and modeling language entities being entities of a language of expressing applications designed in a visual modeling language environment, receiving ... 07/05/07 - 20070157162 - Non-graphical model dependencies in graphical modeling environments Graphical programming or modeling environments, such as a block diagram environment, are disclosed in which dependencies that influence how a model executes are defined without altering the visual representation of the model. In the graphical modeling or programming environment, users create a model that describes how the system is to ... 07/05/07 - 20070157161 - Distribution of data changes in pattern configurations A method, computer program product, and system for distributing changes to an application are disclosed. A graphical application modeling tool is provided for displaying a model of a pattern of the application. The model has a plurality of elements, where each element is linked to another element via a port. ... 07/05/07 - 20070157160 - Auto-zoomable snippets in multiple snippet windows Multiple information snippets are simultaneously presented in a computer screen. Auto-zooming of a snippet may be provided to enable the user to quickly obtain additional information associated with a selected snippet. Concurrent with the automatic zooming of one of the snippets on a screen, attributes including size, location, context, etc. ... 04/19/07 - 20070089087 - Method for dynamically generating multiple views of three-dimensional models for utility networks Embodiments of the invention provide a method, apparatus and article of manufacture for modeling a variety of three-dimensional (3D) utility networks constructed from individual network part elements. In one embodiment, users may construct a utility network by selecting and assembling a network of inter-connected parts, where each part is selected ... 03/15/07 - 20070061776 - Integration of process and workflows into a business application framework Process is integrated into a business application framework on which the process is built. The same programming model used by the framework is used for managing data operated on by the process and for interacting with and controlling the process. ... 03/01/07 - 20070050752 - Quick-creating objects in an application A palette of representations that can be generated by an application for database, spreadsheet, word processing, and the like, is provided in response to a request for a new object within the application. If the application already has one or more objects open at the time of the request, the ... 03/01/07 - 20070050751 - Automatic interoperation with legacy pos service and control objects Automatic interoperation functionality for legacy POS service and control objects is provided. In response to a request for creating an instance for a control object that implements an interface for the POS device, a legacy interoperability subsystem determines a unique identifier associated with the control object. The legacy interoperability subsystem ... 02/22/07 - 20070044068 - Using a visual, object-oriented methodology to describe an apparatus A method for describing an apparatus is provided whereby visual and objected-oriented tools are used to provide a description of the relevant parts of the apparatus as well as their relationship to each other. ... 01/04/07 - 20070006136 - Providing a user interface A system for providing a user interface includes a first element tag and a second element tag. The first element tag specifies a first element that is associated with a class of connectable elements and includes a first order indicator that specifies an order of the first element. The second ... 01/04/07 - 20070006135 - Method and apparatus for customizing model to code transformations A method and system customize and thus extend a fixed mapping between a computer program code language and a code-model notation. Given a fixed mapping, the invention method and system define customization points in the mapping based on known/predefined relatively over rigid points. For each customization point, there is a ... 12/28/06 - 20060294497 - System and method for use in visual modeling A system and method for use in visual (e.g., UML) modeling are provided. According to one embodiment a method is disclosed which comprises providing a diagram of a model; defining predetermined focal points in the diagram; selecting one of the predetermined focal points and displaying the selected focal point at ... 12/28/06 - 20060294496 - System and method for improved web portal design through control tree file creation Embodiments provide methods and mechanisms for organizing portal content that can enable a newly created portal element, i.e., a subsection of a portal, to be persisted as an externally, self-contained entity that can be created for the element and referenced by a control tree for the portal. A control tree ... 12/28/06 - 20060294495 - System and method for improved web portal design through control tree file modification Embodiments provide methods and mechanisms for organizing portal content that can enable a newly created portal element, i.e., a subsection of a portal, to be persisted as an externally, self-contained entity that can be created for the element and referenced by a control tree for the portal. A control tree ... 12/21/06 - 20060288327 - System and method for providing indicators of textual items having intrinsic executable computational meaning within a graphical language environment An electronic device with a graphical language environment that includes a method which examines a graphical model to identify textual items having intrinsic executable computational meaning within the graphical model is discussed. The method identifies at least one textual item with intrinsic executable computational meaning. The method further provides an ... 11/30/06 - 20060271910 - Method and system for customizations in a dynamic environment Systems and methods for applying both profile and user customizations to an application user interface are provided. Profile customizations, created for a specialized use or field, are adapted to an application user interface, which has command-menu-toolbar contributions from various add-in modules. The user has access to the customizations through a ... 11/30/06 - 20060271909 - Graphical editor with incremental development Techniques for developing a graphical editor using an incremental development approach. Externally-stored descriptors are used to specify information on which a graphical editor engine operates to create a graphical editor. Developers can thus redefine the look and feel of the graphical editor by modifying these descriptors, effectively re-configuring the elements ... 11/09/06 - 20060253830 - Guiding application building using business constraint metadata A computer-implemented method and system are provided for guiding application building using a registry of components, wherein the components are stored as metadata having a reference to one or more saved software procedures that are used to build custom applications. Aspects of the present invention include allowing a user to ... 10/26/06 - 20060242621 - System and method for managing resource loading in a multilingual user interface operating system A system and method is provided to manage different UI language settings in a central place by merging different UI language settings and related dependency data to an integrated UI language preference list. A set of API functions is provided that enables each resource loader to gain consistent UI language ... 10/19/06 - 20060236304 - System and method for enabling assisted visual development of workflow for application tasks A method of enabling assisted visual development of workflow for an application task. A workflow wizard provides a tasking page from which a user selects a desired one of a plurality of candidate tasks. The workflow wizard then provides a data selection page from which the user selects a desired ... 10/05/06 - 20060225032 - Business application development and execution environment A business application development environment and a corresponding business application execution environment is disclosed. A graphical user interface based Workflow Designer allows a user to easily create business applications graphically. The business applications are converted into the Business Process Modeling Language (BPML). Existing BPML applications may also be edited with ... 09/28/06 - 20060218522 - Selecting images using associated keywords An automated method for identifying images in an image database based on scores assigned to a plurality of input keywords. Each input keyword is assigned a keyword score based on the number of images in the database that are associated with that keyword. Each image in the database is then ... 09/21/06 - 20060212841 - Computer-implemented tool for creation of speech application code and associated functional specification A machine-implemented method of building a speech application includes generating a graphical user interface to enable a user to create and edit a speech application, and receiving user inputs directed to the graphical user interface, where the user inputs specify a set of dialog flows representing the speech application. The ... 09/14/06 - 20060206860 - Process control configuration system with connection validation and configuration Connection objects or other such data structures facilitate establishing and configuring connections between objects that model components in a process control system. A first set of data structures (e.g., the object connection type structures) identify valid types for component-to-component pairings and the respective roles of each component in the pairing ... 09/14/06 - 20060206859 - Method for generating object shapes by emulation A method for generating object shapes by emulation includes executing a software application that facilitates selection of a known media type having at least one predefined object shape; selecting a template corresponding to the known media type, the template including incising coordinates for the at least one predefined object shape; ... 07/27/06 - 20060168559 - Apparatus and method for converting the visual appearance of a java application program in real time A method and an apparatus for converting the visual appearance) of a program in real time, and more particularly, to a method and an apparatus for converting the visual appearance of a program in real time, by allowing an interface-based program convert a color combination, font, icon and a text ... 07/27/06 - 20060168558 - Software development system and method A computer design model processing system and methods are described that can create visual models of computer systems, store versions of design models in a centralized repository, automatically generate and deploy computer software systems in response to the stored computer design models, define dependencies between computer design models, and automate ... 07/13/06 - 20060156280 - Method and apparatus for creating a network topograph that includes all select objects that are in a network A method is disclosed for creating a network topograph that includes all select objects that are in a network. A set of one or more non-select objects in the network is determined. A network topograph is created. Each select object in the network is included in the network topograph. Elements ... 07/06/06 - 20060150141 - Method of weaving code fragments between programs using code fragment numbering The present invention relates to a method of constructing a new program by weaving codes of various programs. The present invention comprises two ideas described below. First, there is provided a method by which one program inserts a new code fragment into the code of the other program or substitutes ... 06/22/06 - 20060136866 - Program generation method A program is generated by combining program modules by displaying programs for guiding the combination of program modules and selecting one of the programs. Program modules stored in a memory are displayed on a display device by a command inputted from the input device, navigation programs for guiding the combination ... 06/22/06 - 20060136865 - Managing visual renderings of typing classes in a model driven development environment A method, system and apparatus for managing visual renderings of typing classes in a model driven development environment. The method can include toggling a visual rendering of a typing class for a specified typed member in a visually rendered owner class in response to a selection of an activatable toggle ... 05/18/06 - 20060107250 - Interpreter for simplified programming of graphics processor units in general purpose programming languages Although GPUs have been harnessed to solve non-graphics problems, these solutions are not widespread because GPUs remain difficult to program. Instead, an interpreter simplifies the task of programming a GPU by providing language constructs such as a set of data types and operations that are more familiar to non-graphics programmers. ... 03/09/06 - 20060053407 - Graphical association of program icons A system and method for creating and using configuration diagrams for configuring distributed systems. The methods described herein may be used for various types of operations in configuring distributed systems, including creating programs, managing programs in the distributed system, deploying programs to various distributed devices, configuring remote execution or inter-operation ... 02/23/06 - 20060041859 - Synchronizing execution of graphical programs executing on different computer systems A first graphical program executing on a first device may execute a first graphical code portion for a plurality of iteration. Various systems and methods for synchronizing the execution of the iterations of the first graphical code portion with graphical code portions executing iteratively in graphical programs on other devices ... 02/23/06 - 20060041858 - Form skin and design time wysiwyg for .net compact framework A WYSIWYG visual programming environment for programming applications for portable computer devices is provided. The developer selects a form skin based on the underlying portable computer device that the developer intends the application to execute on. The form skin appears to the developer as a graphic modeled after the actual ... 01/05/06 - 20060005160 - Image acquisition device A computer-implemented system and method for deploying a graphical program onto an image acquisition (IMAQ) device. The method may operate to configure an image acquisition (IMAQ) device to perform image processing or machine vision functions, wherein the device includes a programmable hardware element and/or a processor and memory. The method ... 01/05/06 - 20060005159 - Information processing apparatus, image edit apparatus, and control methods thereof, and computer program and computer-readable storage medium This invention prevents ballooning of comment information while being applied to an operation environment of the user, and provides comment information associated with an intuitively plain operation. To this end, upon launching of an application, a window including processing buttons and a message area is displayed. Immediately after display, bitmap ... 01/05/06 - 20060005158 - Interactive interface for engineering standard work A method and system for managing complex projects uses a framework having workflow maps containing activity blocks that provide detailed, easily accessible information within the framework about the project. The framework links functional groups, their associated activities, and the dependences between activities. Images of the workflow maps are converted into ... 12/29/05 - 20050289506 - Program system In order to enable persons without particular programming knowledge to themselves write their own computer programs, there is proposed a computer-supported method of producing and/or executing program code, with at least one visualisation surface for the representation of establishable objects, by way of which information, in particular data, are inputted ... 12/08/05 - 20050273759 - Mvc (model-view-controller) based multi-modal authoring tool and development environment Application development tools and method for building multi-channel, multi-device and multi-modal applications, and in particular, to systems and methods for developing applications whereby a user can interact in parallel with the same information via a multiplicity of channels and user interfaces, while a unified, synchronized views of the information are ... 11/24/05 - 20050262473 - Layered object based software architecture for statechart-centric embedded device controllers A computer software architecture for an embedded computer system. The architecture includes a hierarchy of software object classes. One classification contains object tables which capture device control law behavior expressed in statecharts. Another contains objects which collaborate to function as a logic engine for processing statechart information encoded into object ... 11/10/05 - 20050251785 - Functional continuity by replicating a software application in a multi-computer architecture Disclosed is a method for replicating a software application in a multi-computer architecture (cluster). The software application is executed on a first computer of the the cluster, which represents a primary or operation node, and is replicated on at least one other computer of the cluster, which represents a secondary ... 10/20/05 - 20050235254 - Synchronous formal language for programming deterministic finite state machines A synchronous formal language is used for programming deterministic finite state machines. The language includes a graphical interface, where the behaviour of a finite state machine is represented as a graph of steps and transitions. Actions are actions are associated with steps. A transition between two steps includes: a pause ... 10/20/05 - 20050235253 - Implementing a synchronous reactive system in a graphical program System and method for implementing a synchronous reactive system in a graphical program. A loop structure is included in the graphical program in response to first user input, and is operable to execute iteratively in a synchronous manner, where the loop structure performs each iteration subject to a time constraint. ... 09/29/05 - 20050216883 - Api for building semantically rich diagramming tools A system and method facilitating diagramming is provided. The diagram system includes a diagram that stores shape element(s) and an application program interface (API) that includes a control that facilitates access to the diagram. The control maintains state information associated with the diagram. For example, application(s) can employ the API ... 09/01/05 - 20050193367 - System and method for dynamic runtime hla-federation-execution data display A dynamic runtime high level architecture (HLA) federation-execution data display allows a user to dynamically select HLA-federation-execution data to display while joined to an executing HLA federation. ... 08/25/05 - 20050188348 - Geometric modeling system with intelligent configuring of solid shapes A computer program product (190), and a geometric modeling system which executes the program, provides a visual depiction of a three dimensional object upon a display device (158). The program (190) detects insertion of a generic movant solid shape into a scene for relating the movant sold shape to a ... 08/11/05 - 20050177816 - Automatic generation of graphical program code for a graphical program based on the target platform of the graphical program A system and method for programmatically generating a graphical program in response to receiving input, e.g., user or process input. The input may specify functionality of the graphical program to be generated, and also indicate a target platform. In response to the input, a graphical program implementing the specified functionality ... 07/28/05 - 20050166179 - System and method for ordering events The system and method of the present invention relates to the determining the specific ordering and execution of events from temporal constraints, filtering functions, and execution heuristics. To facilitate specification of event order objects be can associated with events in an object authoring system which provides for interaction, conditional behavior, ... 07/14/05 - 20050155015 - Static binding of nodes to virtual instruments in a graphical program A system and method for creating a graphical program utilizing one or more nodes which are statically bound to one or more virtual instruments (VIs). The system and method for static binding provides a way to interact individually with controls and indicators of a VI running asynchronously, wherein the values ... 07/14/05 - 20050155014 - Graphical program which includes an i/o node for hardware abstraction A system and method for creating a graphical program utilizing one or more input/output (I/O) nodes. An I/O node may be displayed in a first graphical program, where the I/O node may include associated generation code for programmatically generating execution-time code associated with the I/O node in the first graphical ... 06/23/05 - 20050138601 - Multiple-user graphical programming and analysis environment A multiple-user graphical programming and analysis environment is disclosed that includes graphically represented code objects, graphically represented inter-code object connections, application programs, and a graphical white board area. Each code object may be created by a user, and accessible by other users in an asynchronous fashion, in accordance with the ... 06/02/05 - 20050120332 - Method, system, and software for mapping and displaying process objects at different levels of abstraction A method, system, and software for mapping and displaying process objects at different levels of abstraction includes correlating business level objects to application level objects. Source data is associated with indications for both the relevant business level objects and the application level objects and stored in a database. The stored ... ### FreshPatents.com Support |